The Kaboom Boys (A Call to War Book 1)

A historical saga of courage sacrifice and the unbreakable bonds of friendship. “…a true WW2 adventure…” —Nicholas Griffin author of The Year of Dangerous Days With the specter of the Great Depression behind him and the horrors of Nazi-occupied Europe ahead Edward Hume leaves his Pennsylvania coal mining town to volunteer as one of the first US Army bomb demolition captains in the Second World War. Trained alongside the RAF in the English countryside Hume takes command of an eclectic team of misfits tasked with the perilous job of defuzing unexploded bombs in the heart of Europe’s fiercest battlegrounds. Their chances of survival are slim—most soldiers with this assignment don’t make it past ten weeks. The group’s journey culminates at the ancient and mystical Mont Saint-Michel left abandoned by the Nazis in the chaotic aftermath of D-Day. Hume and his squad face not only a deadly cache of jettisoned bombs but also treachero